242 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM 



merely because it is a kind of restitution of the disturbed 

 whole, compels us to admit that biological events happen 

 in a specific and elemental manner, but, indeed, regeneration 

 does prove vitalism, because it is founded upon the existence 

 of certain coniplex-equipotential systems, the analysis of 

 the genesis of which leads to the understanding of life- 

 autonomy. This distinction, in fact, is of the greatest 

 logical importance. 



